(January 10, Reuters)
The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits in a bid to shut down six California marijuana distribution clubs on the grounds they violated federal drug laws.
... In the 1996 election Clinton got 5,119,835 votes in California while Proposition 215 (Medical Use of Marijuana) got 5,382,915 votes.
This is Opposition to the Declaration of Independence statement that "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed".

Federal Judges Who Criticize the "War on Drugs"

John Curtin, NY, who likened the war on drugs to the Vietnam War

Warren Eginton, CT, favors marijuana and cocaine legalization

Nancy Gertner, MS: too costly and depriving Americans of liberty

John Kane,Jr, CO, favors an end to the punishment of drug users

Whitman Knapp, NY: urges thinking about decriminalization

James Paine, FL: wants decriminalization and government regulation of drug
sales

Stanley Sporkin, DC: objects to unfairness of jailing "a lot of secondary
violators of the drug laws. . .We are reaching the point where we are going
to have to open the prison doors and let these prisoners out."

Robert Sweet: calls drug war an attack on personal liberty

Juan Torruella, PR, calls drug war expensive and largely ineffective.

Vaughn Walker, CA, the drug war has only worsened problems associated with
drug use.